Improvement in wire-work for railings



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WANNIBALD li. BOERNER, OF tCHICAGO, ILLINOIS, SSIGNOR TO HIMSELF AND C. Il. BOERNER, 0F SAME PLACE.

The Schedule referred t in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

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Be it known that I, WANNIBALI BonnNnn, of Chicago, iu the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain Improvements in Wire-Work for Railings, Fences, and similar articles, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to theaccompanying drawings.

My invention relates to articles made or formed of wire, such as railings, felices, and similar articles, and consists in a novel manner of securing the wires to longitudinal strips or bars-of` flat iron, which serve. to support and hold them in position.

. Figure 1 is a side elevation of a railing constructed ou my plan, several dilrent forms of the wire being shown;

Figure 2, a plan or edge view of the longitudinal strip, showing the eyes formed in ,or on it and the wires passing through them;

Figure 3, a modilicatiou of the fastening for curved or benut wires, an ear or point being substituted for the eyes or loops; and y 'Figure 4 is a side view of the longitudinal strip, with ,wires of different forms and iu different positions secured to it.

NVhon I desire produce a railingr composed oi' straight wires I provide iron bars or strips A, and, at the desired points, by means of any suitable tools or devices, punch through or set up the metal so as to forni proJecting eyes or loops on one side, as

shown in figs. 1, 2, and 4, through which the wires may be passed, as shown in iig. 2. These loops may be made of any desired size, and in any position to correspond with the anglo or inclination at which the wires cross the bars A.

After having formed the eyes or loops on the bars, I take two or more of the bars and arrange them at the proper distance apart, and then pass the wire or wires through the eyes from one bar to the other, and then flatten or compress the eyes upon and around the wires, which are thus securely held in place.

These wires may be allowed to project beyond the bars without heilig attached to any other fastening, or a surrounding wire frame, I), may be provided, and the wires have their ends secured thereto, as shown on the right side of lig. 1, this' frame being held in position by bending the bars A over the same, Vas shown.

When l desire to construct a fancy or ornamental railiug'with curved or-bent wires which'can not be be passed through the eyes, I form, instead of said eyes, ears or boints b by punching through portions of the bar so as to project on the opposite side and be free at one end, as shown in iig. 3. VVheu these ears are. used the wires are heut or curved, as desired, and placed in the proper -position against the' bars A, and then the lips turned down over and comi lpressed upon the wires, and thus answer the same purpose as the solid loop. If desired, two or more of the ears may bc used at one point, being turned over' the wire from oppositesides, as shown at a', fig. 4.

Two or more wires may be passed under one loop or ear, either side by side or crossed over one another, as shown in figs. 1 and 4. Where the ears or point-s b are used the railing may be made of a single contiuous wire bent back and forth, as shown in tig. 1. My method, thus described, is applicable alike to large articles, as' railings, fences, &c., and to smaller articles, as bird-cages, baskets for owers, and similar' purposes.

Having' thus described my invention,

What I claim isn The herein-described method of securing the wire or wires to their support-s or rails by means ofthe loops or ears, substantially as set forth. v

W. R. ISOERNER.

Witnesses WM. H. llorz, CHRIs'rrAN l. MEYER. 

